Predicting Extreme Acoustic Vibrations to Keep Astronauts Safe During Launch
The Orion spacecraft will carry the first woman and next man to the Moon by 2024 and return them safely back to Earth. Researchers at NASA’s Ames Research Center ran first-of-a-kind simulations on Orion’s launch abort system (LAS) on the Electra supercomputer to help reduce risk and ensure the safety of astronauts if a life-threatening event arises during launch. Read More
Illuminating the Gas Between Galaxies with Supercomputing
Galaxies contain millions of stars, and they grow by pulling in gas to make even more. How gases ebb and flow between galaxies and their surroundings is an essential question that NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer is helping to answer for researchers at the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University. Read More
NASA’s All-Electric X-57 X-Plane: A Cleaner Way to Fly
Just as electric cars are becoming more and more commonplace on our roads each day, aerospace engineers are seeking to make electric air transportation a reality. NASA engineers are using supercomputers to accurately predict flight conditions for the agency’s X-57 “Maxwell” electric experimental aircraft’s flight simulator. Read More
A Cloudy Martian Night, Through the Eyes of a Supercomputer
As NASA’s Curiosity rover makes its way over the surface of Mars, it’s sometimes accompanied by clouds drifting by in the sky above. The NASA Advanced Supercomputing facility at Ames Research Center provides Mars researchers with the necessary computing power to produce high-resolution data visualizations to study how the planet’s atmosphere works, in fine detail. Read More
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